Headlines & News Releases
KABC7
Dozens of members of the Los Angeles Police Department's anti-gang unit are opting out and are returning to regular patrols over a requirement to reveal personal financial information.
LA Times blog
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sent a letter Monday urging the City Council to move ahead with his plan to get budget revenue by leasing nine parking garages to a private company, saying he will lay off more employees if the deal is abandoned.
Police Magazine
It's now become nearly impossible for law enforcement agencies to remain uninvolved in social media. However much you might try to avoid it, it's out there and its use is growing.
The Washington Post
Dozens of anti-gang police officers across the city are quitting their assignments over a requirement to reveal personal financial information under strict anti-corruption rules, The Associated Press has learned.
LA Times blog
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in eight L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times’ Crime L.A. database.
LA Daily News Editorial
Los Angeles is now one of the safest big cities in the nation. Once derided as the nation's capital of gang violence and imagined as a violent metropolis of drive-by shootings and rampant crime, L.A. has managed a dramatic turnaround.
LA Times blog
BICYCLE THIEF: Streetsblog Los Angeles looks at how some of the new year's new laws will affect urban movement. First up: The value threshold for grand theft charges must now be at least $950 (previously $400), meaning that bicycle thieves could face fewer penalties for stealing:
LA Daily News
COUNCIL: Mayor wants city to continue staffing LAPD and cut budget elsewhere.
Associated Press
California officials are investigating a state prison inmate they suspect used a Facebook account to post messages to his mother and others from behind bars.
LA Times blog
Los Angeles police detectives said Thursday they are investigating at least four missing persons cases as a result of publicizing photos seized from the South Los Angeles property of alleged "Grim Sleeper" serial slaying suspect Lonnie David Franklin Jr.
LA Times
The mayor's top financial advisor says even if a deal is reached, L.A. still needs to pursue a 'drastic' round of short-term cuts that would be among the deepest of the city's current financial crisis.
Contra Costa Times
The Los Angeles budget director Wednesday painted an even grimmer picture of the city's financial health, saying steeper cuts - including 10 more furlough days and shutting down some departments one day a week - would be needed to balance this year's spending plan.
LA Daily News
A paroled sex offender from Pacoima cut off his GPS monitoring device and was at large Wednesday, according to officials.
Southern California Public Radio
The City of Los Angeles recorded the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years - 297 murders occurred last year.
The Boston Globe
Outraged House Republicans, criticizing the state Parole Board's decision to free a serial armed robber who shot and killed a Woburn police officer last week, demanded action today on a bill to crack down on repeat violent offenders.
MSNBC
The next time you're in California, you might not want to bring your cell phone with you.
CBS Local
Chief, mayor tout 40-year-low murder rate.
Xinhuanet
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Tuesday he did not favor the idea of reducing the city's police department.
KABC-7
A recent string of murders in South Los Angeles prompted the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday to unanimously approve three separate $50,000 rewards.
LA Times blog
A man was in custody after holding Los Angeles police at bay for several hours Tuesday after a woman was fatally shot in a Hollywood apartment complex
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